Intro to Cybersecurity Part 1

What is an attack surface?

• An area that can be hacked on a network.

• When a business creates virtual machines and forgets or ignores them.

• On a web server that is not indexed by search engines.

• It routes traffic through a multitude of networks

A hacker that uses pre-made tools to conduct attacks is known as which type of hacker?

• Script kiddie

• Onion network

• Red Team

• Hypervisor

When you want to remain anonymous on the Internet, what manages the traffic flow?

• Onion network (or Tor browser)

• Script kiddie

• Hyper-V

• Create a snapshot.

A hacker motivated by personal beliefs is practicing what type of hacking?

• Hacktivism

• Red Team

• Hypervisor

• Hacking

What is the team called that is hired or used to assess the security of a company?

• Red Team

• Hacktivism

• Go Team

• Fortnite

There is a database that a company wants to allow preregistered, selected customers to access. It does not want the database publicly advertised. Which is the best solution for the location of the database?

• In a hidden folder on the company’s normal web server

• On the darknet

• On a web server that is not indexed by search engines

• On a company server that is not a web server

Information assurance primarily deals with _____.

• laws associated with computer hacking

• management of the security of a network

• protecting the data and assets of an organization

• securing web servers from unknown hackers

A company has a poor environmental record. It is hit with a cyberattack that revealed its poor practices along with employee names and their salaries. Which is the most likely motivation of the hacker?

• hacktivism

• thrill of the attack

• revenge

• cyberwarfare

A cyberattack against a country’s water system infrastructure would most likely be the actions of which type of hacker motivation?

• cyberwarfare

• money

• thrill of hacking

• hacktivism

Malware that causes a virtual machine to interact directly with the physical host machine is called:

• VM sprawl

• VM escape

• VM exploit

• VM expose